Projects matching: Rupert Jones

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Quiet and demure Joseph (Ben Whishaw) leads a modest life in London, shuttling between his solo apartment and the airport where he forms part of the security team. His birthday goes unnoticed by his colleagues and only mildly celebrated by his irritable parents. Something seems to be simmering in Joseph just under the surface. It only takes a few strange incidents to unlock his impulse to go on a reckless, frantic, and unbelievable journey through the streets of the city as he determines that boundaries and niceties will no longer govern his life.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Panorama - International premiere

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A taut, psychological thriller that explores the inescapability of a destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother. At the heart of this modern day 'Psycho' are some unsettling questions: Can we ever escape the role in which we are cast by our early circumstances? Must a perpetrator first be a victim?

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An over-worked, under-appreciated employee decides to make his boss and co-workers notice him: by his absence.
 

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Based on the writer/director's own childhood experience of hospital, Seeing Things explores the emotional journey of an adolescent boy, Jack Park, who is in hospital to undergo plastic surgery to expand his hare-lip. It is an experience which renders him temporarily mute and without access to mirrors.

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Eleven year old Jack Park is in hospital for plastic surgery on his hare lip. After the operation, he goes in search of a mirror and a magical journey begins. His adventure in the strange world of the hospital begins with an imaginary battle and ends in an encounter with a patient who performs impossible conjuring tricks. When the plastic surgeon visits Jack to inspect his handiwork, the boy performs his own trick and disappears.